YEREVAN. - Armenian environmentalists have joined a picket of silence in Yerevan’s Liberty Square on Tuesday.

Ecologists Karine Danielyan, Silva Adamyan, Inga Zarafyan, and their colleagues decided to join the protest in the square.

The protest action has begun since April 2 and aims at protecting public and moral values in Armenia. The participants will remain silent during the event.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am reported previously, a sit-down strike, organized by Armenian intellectuals, is being held in Liberty Square of Yerevan from 5:00 p.m. to 10:0 p.m. every day. The MP from Heritage Party Larisa Alaverdyan, ethnographer Hranush Kharatyan and scientist Anahit Tonoyan opened the event.